This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series covers the 34th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade and medical evacuation in Europe. The Big Brigade is shown crossing the Rhine River and deploying in predetermined defense positions, as well as firing live ammunition side by side with British NATO allies and other American units. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration also shows a simulation of medical...

The Medical Corps saves more lives than in any other time of combat. Produced by the U.S. Army as part of The Big Picture series, this graphic documentary shows the treatment that was administered to our wounded troops in battle. With footage provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, cameras follow the wounded soldier from the time he calls "Medic" until he is released for duty. An interview with Lieutenant Colonel S.J. Newsom,...

"...explores the science and grisly history of U.S. Civil War medicine, using actual medical cases and first-person accounts by soldiers, doctors, and nurses."-- Publisher's description.

In this episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series, viewers will learn about work of the Army Medical Research and Development Center. Footage provided by the National Archives and Records Administration shows the doctors and scientists who continue their endless search for new methods and drugs, which would prevent and cure sickness and disease. This historical video shows viewers how they developed equipment to support the Army...

"Dr. David Cifu and Cory Blake work at the Hunter Holmes McGuire Polytrauma Center (one of only four in the country), providing intensive rehabilitation care to service members who have experienced injuries to multiple organ systems. This type of injury that results in physical, cognitive, psychological, and psychological impairments has recently been identified as "Post-Deployment Syndrome." Overcoming Post-Deployment Syndrome offers soldiers and...

"City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world of superstition with the bright flame of reason, so they deliver a mountain of ragged, holed and scorched flesh to the field hospital tents just behind the front line. Which is where Yasnic, one-time priest, healer and rebel, finds himself. Reprieved from the gallows and sent to war clutching a box...

The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the battlefield, the injuries were shocking, unlike anything those in the medical field had ever witnessed. The bullets hit fast and hard, went deep and took bits of dirty uniform and airborne soil particles in with them. Soldier after soldier came in with the most dreaded kinds of casualty: awful, deep, ragged...